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Fires Near Minneapolis, MN

Live wildfire tracking around Minneapolis: every active fire within 300 miles with distance, size, containment, wind, smoke, and air quality, from official US sources.

8
Fires within 100 mi
157 mi
Nearest fire
0
Weather alerts
24
Air quality · Good

All clear

Live risk assessment for Minneapolis, MN

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No significant wildfire threat near this location right now.

  • No active fires within 50 miles, no fire weather alerts, and clean air right now.
There are currently 64 active fires within 300 miles of Minneapolis, MN, including 8 within 100 miles. None are inside Minneapolis city limits. The most significant is the Goose Lake fire, 157 miles away at 10 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Minneapolis, MN in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Minneapolis - Near Road monitor is good (AQI 24).

House pin: Minneapolis, MN. Bold outline: Minneapolis city limits. Dashed rings show distance from the city center. Red or amber shaded zones are active evacuation areas.

No evacuation feed for this area

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Minneapolis is in Hennepin CountyNo live feed

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Live evacuation feed coverage
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Orders and warnings in the 84 counties without a feed will not appear on FireNearby. If you live in one, follow that county's official emergency channels.

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  • Aitkin
  • Anoka
  • Becker
  • Beltrami
  • Benton
  • Big Stone
  • Blue Earth
  • Brown
  • Carlton
  • Carver
  • Cass
  • Chippewa
  • Chisago
  • Clay
  • Clearwater
  • Cottonwood
  • Crow Wing
  • Dakota
  • Dodge
  • Douglas
  • Faribault
  • Fillmore
  • Freeborn
  • Goodhue
  • Grant
  • Hennepin
  • Houston
  • Hubbard
  • Isanti
  • Itasca
  • Jackson
  • Kanabec
  • Kandiyohi
  • Kittson
  • Koochiching
  • Lac qui Parle
  • Lake of the Woods
  • Le Sueur
  • Lincoln
  • Lyon
Live feed3
  • Cook
  • Lake
  • St. Louis
3 official sources, checked every 5 minutes
  • St. Louis County Emergency Management
  • Lake County Emergency Management
  • Cook County Emergency Management

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Fires by distance

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8
8 acres
≤ 200 mi
48
819 acres
≤ 300 mi
64
298K acres

This season vs the last decade

101% of an average year
Burned so far in 202655 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)54 acres

So far in 2026, 55 acres have burned within 25 miles of Minneapolis, 101% of the 54 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Source: NIFC interagency incident reports, all agencies. Counts fires that started within 25 miles, at their full size.

Active fires near Minneapolis, MN

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Minneapolis

Generated automatically from official feeds the moment they change: size, containment, evacuation zones, aircraft, and incident team updates.

  1. Marion Fire · New perimeter mapped at 0 acres (national perimeter feed)

    31 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  2. Ridge Fire · Containment rose to 85%

    5 days ago · November 5, 2026

  3. Craig Lake 1 Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  4. Craig Lake 1 Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  5. Black River Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  6. Black River Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    6 days ago · November 4, 2026

  7. Lynx Fire · New perimeter mapped at 1 acres (national perimeter feed)

    7 days ago · November 3, 2026

  8. Stewart Trail Fire · New perimeter mapped at 356 acres (national perimeter feed)

    8 days ago · November 2, 2026

  9. Stewart Trail Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    8 days ago · November 2, 2026

  10. Black River Fire · Containment rose to 90%

    12 days ago · October 29, 2026

Historic fires near Minneapolis

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Muddy Creek
2009
390 acres · 74 mi away

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